Affirming Care with Dr. Kellan Baker
America Dissected18 Juli 2023

Affirming Care with Dr. Kellan Baker

What is gender-affirming care — and why is the far right trying to ban it? Abdul reflects on the way misinformation intended to flatten and decontextualize gender-affirming care has been critical to driving a cycle of hatred against trans people. Then he talks to Dr. Kellan Baker, the Executive Director of Whitman-Walker Institute and an expert on gender-affirming care about what it is, the impact of bans, and what everyone who believes in freedom can do to push back.

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Trouble sleeping? This can help.

Trouble sleeping? This can help.

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Trauma, Trust, and Why We Still Haven't Processed the Pandemic

Trauma, Trust, and Why We Still Haven't Processed the Pandemic

When it comes to "trust" in public health, there was a "before the pandemic" and an "after the pandemic." Rebuilding that trust will require us to deal with all the ways the pandemic moment shaped Ame...

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Project 2025 is Bad for Your Health

Project 2025 is Bad for Your Health

You’ve probably heard all about Project 2025, the conservative plan to remake America … for 1950. Abdul reflects on the power of the federal government when it comes to health. Then he sits down with ...

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An Enlightening Conversation about Breast Density

An Enlightening Conversation about Breast Density

The FDA recently issued a rule that requires all mammography reports include information about breast density. Abdul talks to Dr. Elise Desperito, the Breast Imaging Director at Memorial Sloan Ketteri...

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A Community Fight in Wisconsin, From To See Each Other

A Community Fight in Wisconsin, From To See Each Other

Sharing an episode of To See Each Other, a show that complicates the narrative about small town Americans in our most misunderstood, and often abandoned, communities. This season, host George Goehl tr...

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Pink October

Pink October

It’s October–which if the ubiquitous pink ribbons didn’t make it clear–is breast cancer awareness month. Breast cancer is a terrible disease, but so are so many others. But it has excellent branding. ...

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Will Medical Debt get a Blue Waive

Will Medical Debt get a Blue Waive

Over the past several years, cities, counties, and states have elected to relieve their residents’ medical debt. That’s cascaded into a national movement to relieve it — which has been picked up by th...

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Factory Farming Fails

Factory Farming Fails

You are what you eat…right? Or maybe, we are what we eat. And together, most of the meat we consume is raised on factory farms that degrade our environment, our pocketbooks, and yes, our health. Abdul...

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